Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.